Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573617690
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Blacks and whites during the summer of 1918 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Wedding Band
Trouble in Mind
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1636700160
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
“A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday.” —Vulture Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play’s stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would “sanitize” the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childress’s final script is published here with an essay by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, editor of TCG Illuminations.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1636700160
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
“A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday.” —Vulture Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play’s stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would “sanitize” the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childress’s final script is published here with an essay by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, editor of TCG Illuminations.
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780881032543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The life of a 13-year-old Harlem black boy, on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict, is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780881032543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The life of a 13-year-old Harlem black boy, on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict, is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
Wine in the Wilderness
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822212614
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The story of Bill Jameson, an artist in a Harlem apartment, who's working on a triptych which will represent black womanhood.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822212614
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The story of Bill Jameson, an artist in a Harlem apartment, who's working on a triptych which will represent black womanhood.
Those Other People
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Bigotry surfaces at Minitown High when a popular male teacher sexually assaults a delinquent fifteen-year-old girl and the only witnesses are a Black boy and a gay student teacher.
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Bigotry surfaces at Minitown High when a popular male teacher sexually assaults a delinquent fifteen-year-old girl and the only witnesses are a Black boy and a gay student teacher.
Rainbow Jordan
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881032536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881032536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.
Short Walk
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780948491375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Famed dramatist and author Alice Childress portrays her protagonist's "short walk" through life. During the early half of the twentieth century, Cora James experiences political movements, the easy life of dealing poker in a Harlem card parlor, and the more grueling demands of the vaudeville circuit. She emerges as the woman of stature she always vowed to become.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780948491375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Famed dramatist and author Alice Childress portrays her protagonist's "short walk" through life. During the early half of the twentieth century, Cora James experiences political movements, the easy life of dealing poker in a Harlem card parlor, and the more grueling demands of the vaudeville circuit. She emerges as the woman of stature she always vowed to become.
Notable American Women
Author: Susan Ware
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674014886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674014886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.
Black World/Negro Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.
Conversations with Toni Morrison
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878056927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Collected interviews with the Nobel Prize winner in which she describes herself as an African American writer and that show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African American experience
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878056927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Collected interviews with the Nobel Prize winner in which she describes herself as an African American writer and that show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African American experience